Tipoulet has learned a ton of new words (in french, english, swiss-german, maybe more) in the last few months. Impressive. You could say, well, he hears them every day, it has to stick at some point, right ? ... Except that, if the grandmas confirm, I would tell you that he remembers some expressions he may have heard just a few times. This is the beauty of being the only french-speakers around him: we can spot words or expressions that he knows and we never use ourselves. Meaning he had to learn them from somewhere else.First example: this morning, he dropped crumbs on the kitchen floor. "It's for the birds" he said. If I remember correctly, that, he learned from my mom. Who left almost four months ago. To be totally honest, I think he said the same thing 2 or 3 times since she left. But still.Second example: he had stuck something under the couch recently and I heard him say, trying to get it back: "the little mouse". Same thing, he probably said that once or twice in the last 2 months. I assume that it is from my in-laws, then. Since they left two-and-a-half months ago. Am I right?If only I could have the same memory ...